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The Warm Springs Foundation
NINE YEARS AGO the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation was a combination of antiquated buildings and a dream -- the dream of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But with his indomitable courage and vision, this dream was not long in assuming reality. He surrounded himself with people who, financially or through the contribution of their energies, could help bring about an institution which would be the greatest single force in organizing and coordinating a national fight against infantile paralysis....
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Title: The Warm Springs Foundation
Creator: Keith Morgan (author)
Date: January 1936
Format: Article
Publication: The Birthday Ball Magazine
Publisher: National Committee for the Birthday Ball for the President to Fight Infantile Paralysis
Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
Control no.: RJ 496 P2 P7 1936
Keywords: Advocacy; Birthday Balls; Charity; Diagnoses & Diseases; Disease; Economics; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Fundraising; Georgia; Institutions; Keith Morgan; Media; Medicine; Physical Disability; Polio; Public Relations; Service Organizations; Warm Springs Foundation
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Social Movements & Advocacy
Funding Support Provided By: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute